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June 16, 2005
Breakthrough In Growing Brain Cells
While politicians are busy arguing about embryonic stem cells we are seeing major advances in adult stem cell research.
cientists working in mice said they had found a way to identify master cells in the brain and grow them in large batches -- a potential way of helping patients grow their own brain tissue transplants.The scientists said they had found a process to make the cells multiply, which would be crucial in fighting degenerative brain diseases like Parkinson's and Huntington's.
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These so-called adult stem cells could come from a patient himself so no donor and no immune system suppressing drugs would be needed.
...Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said they also found an efficient way to make the cells multiply.
"It's like an assembly line to manufacture and increase the number of brain cells," said Dr. Bjorn Scheffler, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida who led the study.
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"As far as regenerating parts of the brain that have degenerated, such as in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and others of that nature, the ability to regenerate the needed cell type and placing it in the correct spot would have major impact," said Dr. Eric Holland
Posted by Dave at June 16, 2005 08:03 AM
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